"We stayed huddled that way until the early hours of the morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour, but they had frightened us badly, because none of us had ever heard gunshots in the streets. They were foreign sounds to us then. The generation of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of bombs and gunfire was not yet born..."

-- Khaled Hosseini

#Morning Quotes #Children Quotes #Bombs Quotes

“Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.”
“Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?”
“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”

Source : Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy
“The moment you come to trust chaos, you see God clearly. Chaos is divine order, versus human order. Change is divine order, versus human order. When the chaos becomes safety to you, then you know you're seeing God clearly.”
“It normally happens that if you put two words together, or two syllables together, one of them will attract more weight, more emphasis, than the other. In other words, most so-called spondees can be read as either iambs or trochees.”
“Faith allows us to confidently walk with God into a future filled with joy; one that can become an extraordinary and amazing adventure.”

Source : Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.209, WaterBrook
“Live one day at a time and make it a masterpiece.”
“Not only do journalists not have a responsibility to report what skeptical scientists have to say about global warming. They have a responsibility not to report what these scientists say.”

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